Somewhere Quiet
Written and direct by Olivia West Lloyd , Somewhere Quietdeals with the aftermath of a Final Girl ’s survival . sure as shooting , she may have lived through a traumatic event , but Lloyd ’s film examine how that may have affected her . Could someone go back to a normal life-time after such a horrific experience ? How did the experience shape them , and how does it impact their relationship with others?Somewhere Quietattempts to answer some of these interrogative sentence , though not in a way you might expect . bolster by a move performance by Jennifer Kim , the film is a slow - sunburn , type - driven thriller that brings us to call into question what is real and what is reckon .
Meg ( Jennifer Kim ) is whip to her husband Scott ’s ( Kentucker Audley ) folk home to convalesce after escaping a kidnapping months earlier . Her attempts to unwind and conduct with what happened to her are foil by the paranoia she begins to feel after run across her married man ’s cousin ( Marin Ireland ) , who is dismissive and spookily closelipped to Scott , for the first time . Meg begins to question who really was behind her kidnapping and whether her married man is telling her the true statement about any of it .
Somewhere Quietstarts at the end . Meg ’s escape ahead of time on puts her in survival mode , bringing her journeying full lap , especially as the want of faith she has throughout the film bleeds into everything . Since it ’s from her perspective , we ’re thrown into her world and the instinct to take flight is strong from the get - go . Lloyd thoughtfully and cautiously position Meg as an undependable narrator , but one whose reactions and harm color what we ’re see . At any given level , it ’s hard to gauge what ’s tangible and what is n’t , and it throws us into an challenging , centre - wrenching hertz that builds in intensity and paranoia .
As the film near its closing we commence to question everything we ’ve see , but the message is exculpated : Settling back into normal life is difficult after live through something as traumatic as a kidnapping . Even those who signify to help skin to do so in the aftermath . Lloyd curates an worked up through line that is as engrossing as the thrills embedded throughout . Meg is not only rub to leave this place of solitude , likely because she ’s alone with her own thoughts more often than not , but her spousal relationship is also on the short letter . Paired together , Somewhere Quietbecomes something more than the sum of its parts . It ’s an excited and psychologically thrilling drive that layers itself with restlessness and a warped sense of what ’s going on . It ’ll leave you guess in that sensory faculty , and the ride is all the better for it .
Meg is a deeply sympathetic fictional character who ’s going through a band , and Jennifer Kim channel her rising reverence and discontentment marvelously . She ’s contemplative in one instance and freak out the next , her eyes range enough that you may much see all the scenarios play out in her head . The deadening - burn of it all makes Kim ’s public presentation all the more impressive , as she builds upon the momentum from one setting to the next . Marin Ireland ’s execution is unhinged by comparison . An antagonist to Meg , Ireland ’s lineament is unappealing , but the actress is clearly having a great time in the theatrical role , push and dig Meg in ways that set her off and sound her inner alarms . The best scenes demand their character interact .
Not only doesSomewhere Quietdeal with the ramifications of surviving a snatch , but it showcases the microaggressions Meg has to put up with , which only increase her sentiency of disconcertion and not belonging . It ’s jarring and settles uncomfortably , but the film is nonetheless engaging to watch , so invested is it in the exploration of Meg ’s genial state that we ca n’t help but worry about her well - being .
Somewhere Quietscreened at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival . The film is 98 minutes long and not yet rat .
In Somewhere Quiet , Jennifer Kim play Meg , a woman who is having problem readjusting to a normal life after she was nobble . Hoping to ground herself once more , she head off to Cape Cod to stay at her husband ’s family compound . Her peaceful convalescence is interrupted by the arrival of her husband ’s cousin , Madeline . With a holier - than - thou attitude and a brash personality , Madeline ’s presence begins to excavate the bury trauma in Meg , leading to an harsh reconciliation .
In Somewhere Quiet, Jennifer Kim plays Meg, a woman who is having trouble readjusting to a normal life after she was kidnapped. Hoping to ground herself once more, she heads off to Cape Cod to stay at her husband’s family compound. Her peaceful recovery is interrupted by the arrival of her husband’s cousin, Madeline. With a holier-than-thou attitude and a brash personality, Madeline’s presence begins to unearth the buried trauma in Meg, leading to an abrasive reconciliation.
